10-16-16 Point of Personal Privilege
Point of Personal Privilege Today is the 27th birthday of a great, young Alaskan. -dh
10-15-16
2016 First Quarter Employment, Posted: 13 Oct 2016 12:39 PM PDT By Scott Goldsmith: The Alaska economy contracted at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2016 according to the final count by the Alaska Department of Labor. Employment was 4.5 thousand lower in the first quarter than the previous year. Growth slowed through early 2015 and turned negative in the second half of the year. The drop was most pronounced in four sectors. Petroleum was down 13 percent, a loss of 1.9 thousand jobs. Business services [...]
10-14-16 We Lament The Passing of Former Premier Jim Prentice!
James Prentice. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour We lament the passing of a great Canadian leader: Former premier Jim Prentice, who, with three others, was killed in Kelowna-area plane crash, yesterday. When we chaired an Arctic Gas Symposium in Calgary, it was a pleasure to dust off our French and introduce Jim in both of his country's languages. We sat together over lunch discussing his desire to see an Arctic gas pipeline properly developed with minimal delay...and his love for hunting pheasants in the Dakotas. He seemed [...]
10-14-16
TransCanada offering a deal for Alberta natural gas shippers - Calgary Herald Calgary Herald Homepage ... Reader says 76,000 kilometres of pipelines are on the books or under construction worldwide. ... TransCanada Corp. is offering lower-priced long-term contracts for Alberta natural gas shippers that ... The Calgary-based company says its proposal for a new round of binding .... From our Mid-Atlantic energy analyst friend (Anonymous): Thesis: Crude oil producers have become akin to utilities. They have relatively high fixed costs, through contractual commitments (including debt, rigs rentals, throughput [...]
10-13-16 Bradner Calls for Caelus Caution
ADN by Tim Bradner. Shucks — just when Alaskans are starting to take our state's huge financial problem seriously, someone finds a bunch of oil. Last week's announcement by Caelus Energy that it had found a large oil accumulation on the North Slope is really good news. But it shouldn't give our legislators an excuse to chicken out again on some tough fiscal decisions. Need for caution For one thing, we have to view Caelus' find with a certain caution. The 6 billion-barrel figure, for example, is oil in place, [...]
10-12-16 TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT-WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
We’d love to see you tonight in Anchorage! -dh Mead Treadwell Dr. Forrest Nabors Dave Harbour
10-11-16 The New President Will Bring Alaska (and America) To Energy Based Prosperity Or Poverty
We'd love to see you tomorrow night in Anchorage! -dh Let's Keep Our Eyes On The Prize: One Presidential Candidate Will Support Reasonable Energy Policies That Build Prosperity And The Other Will Support Unreasonable, Impoverishing Energy Policies. Dear Readers: Respectfully. It's not whether we prefer the morals of one imperfect candidate over another. Both are flawed, as have been past presidents, as have been ourselves. One, in our opinion is more fatally flawed than the other, but setting that aside, we choose to focus on the prize. Since our [...]
10-11-16 Join Us Tomorrow (Wednesday) 6 p.m.!
ALASKA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL SOCIAL EVENT (MORE INFO HERE) Join us at 5:30pm for a social mixer with our guest speakers prior to the program start at 6:00pm. Beverages will be available for purchase during the event and social hour. Please plan to arrive earlier if you plan to eat food prior to the program or plan to try 49th State Brewing Co‘s delicious food after the discussion. Speakers: Community Perspective – Mead Treadwell Prior to joining Pt Capital as President, Mead Treadwell served as Alaska’s lieutenant governor and was [...]
10-10-16 Did Alaska’s Senators Jump The Gun Trashing Trump?
Our take on this headline: Alaska Sens. Sullivan and Murkowski call on Donald Trump to drop out of presidential race After the disgusting Trump "hot mike" comments from 11 years ago, we collected our thoughts and offered them to Tim Pawlenty last Saturday. Today, we wish we had similarly counselled Alaska's Senators to not, "jump the gun". After all the outrage and dust settles, the reality is that a Clinton administration would 1) put the nail in Alaska's natural resource coffin, and 2) coordinate with the liberal Canadian Prime Minister on [...]
10-9-16
Daily Planet by Tom Brennan. Things seem to be looking up for Alaska. It may be, as the fella says, we’ve been down so long it looks like up to us. But I don’t think so. First and perhaps foremost is the announcement by Caelus Energy that its discovery at Smith Bay off the North Slope coast is likely to produce at least 200,000 barrels a day of light oil for shipment south through the trans-Alaska pipeline.
10-9-16
Do we wish Arctic Gas had been constructed? The $20 Billion Arctic Pipeline That Will Haunt Canada Forever. Motherboard. The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, later called the Mackenzie Gas Project, would snake 2400 miles across the northern Arctic shore from Alaska, through....
10-8-16 More On Governor’s Korea Trip
Re: Governor's Asian trips, see previous posts: 10-7-16, 10-3-16, 10-2-16 TODAY: Gov. Walker headed to South Korea to promote gas pipeline, Alaska Dispatch News. Keith Meyer, president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., will accompany Walker on the trip, according to a statement from the governor's ... Walker to return to S. Korea to pitch gasline plan - Alaska Public Radio Network Governor Bill Walker Plans International Energy Forum Attendance, Seoul - youralaskalink Governor Walker Invited to Speak in Korea about Alaska's Energy Opportunities - Alaska Native News
10-7-16 Governor Gives A Day’s Notice For Another International Trip
Governor Bill Walker today sent a letter to Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell nominating the Beaufort and Chukchi seas and Cook Inlet for inclusion in the 2017-2022 proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) lease sale More here. With Some Highly Astute Audiences, One Has But One Chance To Make A Successful Pitch by Dave Harbour* Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska. NGP file photo by Dave Harbour. The release below, received today, indicates Governor Bill Walker will be in Korea tomorrow for a speech to the new but influential Yeosijae [...]
10-6-16 US & Canadian Leaders Attack Fossil Fuel (Note: Both liberal policies increase consumer prices, decrease jobs, increase national debt, depress economies with no verifiable improvement in a conjured climate change narrative. -dh)
BREAKING NEWS! ConocoPhillips Alaska today announced it has signed a contract with Doyon Drilling Inc. to build a new Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) Rig. The rig will initially target development of Fiord West, a field northwest of the main Alpine pad discovered in 1996. The ERD rig represents the third new-build drilling rig ConocoPhillips has contracted for since SB21 was passed in 2013. READ COMPLETE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE! Oil Glut? Here Comes Some More! Good for Alaska! BY CLIFFORD KRAUSS Oil finds in Texas and Alaska come at a [...]
10-6-16 ConocoPhillips – Doyon Drilling To Build New Extended Reach Drilling Rig!
ConocoPhillips Contracts for a New Extended Reach Drilling Rig ANCHORAGE, Alaska – ConocoPhillips Alaska today announced it has signed a contract with Doyon Drilling Inc. to build a new Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) Rig. The rig will initially target development of Fiord West, a field northwest of the main Alpine pad discovered in 1996. The ERD rig represents the third new-build drilling rig ConocoPhillips has contracted for since SB21 was passed in 2013. The new ERD rig will increase the area that can be developed from a drill site from [...]